Dressed in red union suits (she wears two, which will eventually become apparent) with a light blue checked pinafore/jumper over them, she drinks coffee and smokes, reading a red paperback with gold lettering, The Catcher in the Rye. A large map is on the left wall behind a two-way radio. It was one of the top 10 highest-grossing films of 1980. And a man dressed almost completely in white who stands staring over the table top maze in the same stance that Jack does (he can be seen in the far background as Jack tells his wife hes got the job). We will be looking, constantly, to see where the elevator hall fits into the labyrinth of the Overlook. The scene takes place after Jack dies in the snow. (11:14)
Ilaria Franciotti, MA, is an independent researcher, interested in film narratology and dramaturgy and in womens studies. STUART: Bill, I'd like you to meet Jack Torrance. Her teasing dialogue also mimics the close proximity with which the camera chases Danny. Jack will murder the only African-American in The Shining. JACK (correcting): Uh, formerly a schoolteacher.
We have this circularity in The Shining with the deja vu. As Wendy says "friends" we cut away to Danny's reaction, the sound of a train in the cartoon beginning and continuing through Tony's initial protestations that he doesn't want to go to the hotel. -When Jack tells Danny he would never hurt him, he says he wants to stay in the hotel "forever and ever and ever," which is the same phrase the ghosts of the Grady twins used when they appeared to Danny earlier.
He ended up having a role in a TV film two years later, but that was the extent of his acting career. The theme of family bonds is one of the most important in the novel. It is a classic of the horror genre and has inspired numerous authors and filmmakers since it was written.
Foreboding, naturalistic, surreal, horrific, suspenseful, and voyeuristic. The embellishments employed by Kubrick are in many places not the same as at the Ahwahnee, such as at the tops of these columns. The pink-salmon tone in the bathroom also ties in with the salmon tone on the walls in Stuart's office. I don't know, but Danny, surrounded in Boulder by his toys and cartoon figures, is very much in the fantasy world of the child, and his relationship to his mother may be somewhat described here in her being on par with these toys and cartoon figures, which is not to denigrate her but to point out how "real" such fictional figures can be to a child. Because of the importance of the maze to the plot I'm going to lean toward thinking perhaps the book was chosen due the coincidence of the needle and the word clew, as a clew of thread was the ball used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth, and is the origin for the word "clue". (15:28)
Shot 29. 27:20 - It occurs as they enter the C1 storage room. The dresses, I believe, are two layers of fabric, a swiss dotted blue fabric over white. The four letters are I H W H, or Yod, He, Waw and He (a silent letter). The table is covered with an orange-red and white checkered cloth in which we can see printed symbols such as hearts and fish. When King responded with the question of how hell fit into that picture, Kubrick simply responded, I dont believe in hell., The executive producer of The Shining was Kubricks brother-in-law, Jan Harlan. Most of the photographs observed on the walls of Ullman's office are black and white photos of the type chronicling meetings and luncheons and likely the presence of significant personalities at the lodge, but we also see behind Bill Watson two sepia photos and one wonders what may be their value. All rights reserved. Throughout these shots of Ullman, we don't see the bird statuette on the window sill behind him, which is there but concealed by his head. King Kong in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. Now, I'm going to ask you to do me a favor and stay quietly in bed for the rest of the day. The end table and the coffee table are stacked with books, as is every nearly every available surface. In the second paragraph, children put stones in their pockets and make piles of stones in the town square, which seems like innocent play until the stones' true purpose becomes clear at the end of the story. To comment again on the bathroom before continuing on. They are the very definition of balance and imbalance. The maze will eventually be his downfall. It's just the sort of thing you do a hundred times with a child y'know in the park or in the street but on this particular occasion my husband just used too much strength and he injured Danny's arm. STUART (laughing): Yeah, it is. A flood of blood erupts through the left elevator door that has been forced open from the left by the force of the flood which overtakes the hall with such ferocity that the armchairs are swept away from the walls. The Greatest of All Time, aka . In the 119 version, the alcoholism problem is absent: the liquor that Jack asks Lloyd for and then drinks seems to be desired only in order to dampen his anger, with no other implications. It happens at 1:38:56 when Hal, over the radio, is saying it's a "bad day out there". WENDY: Yeah, I know. 02/8/2023. The most literal Shapeshifter is the woman in room 237, who first appears as a young and attractive lady but then morphs into a repulsive decaying hag which is herself double as it were, since we see her alternately laughing sardonically and walking toward Jack, and expressionless, emerging from the bathtub (Dannys vision?) Silent Jeff reveals that there is not only one tunnel, but that a second tunnel has also been blasted and wants to check the second tunnel to see if it too is leaking. What is unusual about The Shining is also the fact that we have a threshold crossing of sorts inside the first act, when the protagonist and his family settle in the Overlook Hotel. Csar Albarrn-Torres Amanda Barbour Tara Judah Abel Muoz-Hnonin Fiona Villella. 86 CU Wendy. 5 - Mastroianni as he appeared in "8 and 1/2". It is our belief that, since the themes are intrinsic to the dramaturgy of the narrative film, the thematic interpretation is valid if it grounds itself in solid dramaturgical analysis, something that even many good studies of the film lack. And I have also read that the shot was done many times with Kubrick searching for the right color red that would look like blood. A baseball rests on the board between the books and the basket. If it reoccurs, which I doubt
It is through the three consonants of the name spelled out: IVD HH VV. foreshadowing, jack crosses the circle where dick will later lie slain - how ambient audio unconsciously constructs and complements environment Jack has glanced in the direction of a model of the hotel's maze as he crossed the circle upon which Dick will later fall when he is murdered by Jack, who will have been hiding in the lobby behind a pillar. In the Boulder apartment she is stretched out, lengthened with the red union suits and her eyes are made conspicuously wide, a common feature of cartoon figures. (3:05). About the cartoon
We see beyond her an elder woman in tan, who had been in that earlier grouping, and is now seated opposite the lobby's television and catty corner to where the man with the camera had been earlier seated. Several times in the movie we have evidence that it seems Jack smokes, but he is never shown smoking, though Wendy is. "The Great Mother" is vibrant, communicating a ferocious strength, in contrast to Mary as the great mother in Christianity and her passively suffering the sacrifice of her son.
Now? This allowed The Shining to be one of the most successful and truly suspenseful horror films of its time A lot of this foreshadowing is shown to the reader in the form of Danny's ability, 'the shining'. 91 CU Wendy. He tells Danny that he loves him and should run for his life. The Shining Themes | GradeSaver STUART: Uhm, physically, it's not a very demanding job. Foreshadowing - Definition and Examples | LitCharts 67 MCU Doctor. Danny being chased playfully by his mother into the hotel maze anticipates him being chased by his kill-crazy father. But there's nothing spooky about the lobby. Because they do. That's the impression given.
Kubrick borrowed from the Ahwahnee, with alterations, what is the receptionist and cashier area in the film. Fig.
What's the distraction? 34 CU of Jack. 25 - The photographs behind Bill are different than the others normally observed. WENDY: He dislocated his shoulder. Jack is going to take care of the Overlook for us this winter. Shot 123. She takes a right turn then a left before seeing his blood soaked corpse. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. The overwhelming red and white decor of the Goldroom lavatory may be a subliminal representation of the historic bloodbath that has been and is yet to come again. After many years of wondering about this painting, and a loon painting in the same secretarial area but on an opposing wall, obviously done by the same artist, I've been apprised by Ioway artist, Lance Foster, the art is by Norval Morrisseau. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) enters, his gray suit appearing cheap, limp and out of place with the resort attire of the others. STUART: Susie? As Jack continues on through the lobby, Kubrick gives us a brief glance again of the group by the door, to whom we'd believed the waiter had been carrying lunch. As Wendy is about to reach the pillar that Jack hides behind the scene ends and we cut to a different part of the hotel. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. (4:19)
Which is an example of foreshadowing? The point of view is largely third person but also tends to be that of Danny Torrance. ), NOTE: Jay writes to me: "Speaking of mining, just watched 'Carson City' for the first time, today, and I'd like to respectfully offer a slight correction to what you cite in your analysis, for you indicated that in the scene on the telly in Boulder, Randolph Scott's character is talking to a conspirator, yet it is actually the scene where Jeff has been surveying one bore (the transit tool is visible in the scene) and is now talking to the banker who hired Jeff and is bankrolling the railroad project and is there to complain about the negative press the project has been garnering. As the camera stays fixed on Jack, Ullman begins
Ager created a video in which he maps out the nonsensical visuals. Fig. The presence of boxes in the background immediately communicates impermanence, transience. At least, to the best of my memory, that's how I perceived it upon first view when the movie was released. 29:21 - Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc" (sound). In the background is a book titled Teeny Weeny Adventures. Shot 112. GOT LITERARY FICTION
4 is 1/2 of 8. In German versions, the phrase translates to: Dont put off till tomorrow what you can do today. The Spanish translation is: Although one will rise early, it wont dawn sooner. In Italian: He who wakes up early meets a golden day.. Its the most difficult role Ive ever had to play.. Are we to be reminded of Peter Pan and Wendy, Jim Barrie having met the Davies children at Kensington Gardens and playing with them there? The curtains could only be cheaper if the Torrances had used the thin bamboo blinds that were popular for the time. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. We've no music. Fig. Danny's First Shining of the Girls and the Bloody Elevator, Shots 50 through 60
Where has he gone? The above scene is also a subliminal link to the deaths of the twin girls. But it's also likely that the viewer transposes Danny in the sweater onto the Danny before the mirror and registers Danny as silent screaming in response to what he sees. Furthermore, when Jack calls Wendy to tell her that he got the job we have a sort of Call to Adventure for the family or, in Fields terms, an inciting incident for Danny but this is not the adventure proper in a dramatic sense. JACK: They'll love it. (13:42)
Kubrick repeatedly used trains in his films as a symbol for synchronicity and cyclings of events. A man, reading, speaks with a blond woman in white. Peter Pan's habitat was Neverland, and the two girls in blue will first appear to Danny here, who will later beckon him to come play with them forever, and ever, and ever, just as Jack will say he wishes they could stay at the Overlook forever, and ever, and ever. I will come to how this works with Dick's murder in a moment, and explore the connection with the girls later. Kubrick used the Greek Key design in Lolita, it circling the area in which was the ping-pong table in the mansion at which Quilty was staying when Humbert finds and executes him at the film's beginning. JACK: I'm intrigued. This is the case for many of the windows in the filmthey dont work in context. My superimposition of the previous bedroom/bathroom scene with this one. Did his mother choose it or did Danny himself choose it? A shower curtain is drawn across the bathtub, sunlight shining bright through a high window behind it. Alex's interview was in preparation for treatment to aid his reform, an opportunity provided by a "new order". (3:27 crossing into 3:28) The second thing that happens is a subtle audio cue. At this old theater, the Bijou, they play mostly these terrible old cowboy and Indian films (which were made for this film). Or because it is, in a sense, concealed and adds another layer of meaning to the elevators? Dopey is a voiceless character. Cut to two girls who appear to be twins. Repeatedly throughout The Shining, Kubrick bombards us with visual, auditory and conceptual hints of what is about to happen next. When they used the phrase, they meant that they aimed to kill Danny, making him a ghost in the hotel. Therefore, we also have the Refusal of the Call from Jack, because he recounts the nightmare in a hurtful and worried way. Again, we have a train tragedy connected with revivification of the past. Taken from her Dance of the Happy Shades collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Munro .
These angles not only seem to push the eye toward the center of the screen, they also are dynamic enough that they provide a similitude that ties these shots together. THE DOCTOR: Is Tony one of your animals? When one ascends, the other must descend and vice versa, a matter of physical law. THE DOCTOR (sympathetic): OK, that's fine. The Second Interview, Shots 61 through 95
The first such sound, as I've already mentioned, occurs when Jack passes over the spot where he will attack Dick with an axe. Fig. No, Kubrick is actually already setting up the scene of Danny's encounter with the eerie girls in the blue flowered hall, as well as Dick's murder, making a vocabulary of motifs that will connect them, which is why I bother with pointing out what seems a petty detail. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. She seems to be looking toward the reception desk, but then a bellhop appears from the direction of the service hall behind the lobby and appears to port a silver lunch service to this group who are in the same area where Jack will himself have lunch on Closing Day. The above 2013 Creative Commons image, by the photographer J. W. Kern, shows how much Kubrick took architecturally and design-wise from the Ahwahnee. Do people operate in a free will universe or a mechanical one?
Shot 124. Ullman introduces Jack. 14 MCU of Wendy.
Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor. (6:07) Jack convivially wonders why. There seems a hint of it when Stuart is first talking about the tragedy during the winter in 1970, though I'm uncertain of that. WENDY: Tony is his imaginary friend.
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In both scenes the camera takes us in for a close up. The scene is perhaps snowy in them, a highly reflective white, and against that white in the left photo is a dark silhouette of what seems to be an individual. "The Great Mother" painting is a shock of energy in contrast to the subdued earth tones of the lobby and its ornamentation, as well as the photographs on the other side of the entrance to Ullman's office, seeming to exhibit a sensibility and knowledge of the world quite apart from the photos and the tepid lodge and the well-behaved humans wandering about it engaging quietly with each other. 38 - Not in the movie. Jack's knowledge of a former caretaker murdering his family is also foreknowledge for the audience of the films coming events. We're well on our way to the anticipated train crash of an ending. Kubrick would have appreciated the presence of a Mirror Lake at Mount Hood considering his interest in doublings. 2.8m members in the MovieDetails community. More books than SparkNotes. Did Jack have any trouble finding them? A truly good horror movie utilizes all key aspects of suspense. They never recognize it is there by either a glance, action, or comment. On the opposite wall is the "Woman and Terrier" painting by Colville, from 1963.
Write with Grammarly. The same happens with environments in Lolita and Eyes Wide Shut, as I've pointed out in my analyses of them, but Kubrick's skewing the sets so they aren't what they appear to be services The Shining well with its introduction of a sinister aspect. Look! The book also displays mirroring/doubling, with the title displayed in the same manner on the back cover as on the front. [special thanks to Vince Contreras: . A similar arrangement occurs here. 50 Crossfade from office interior to Boulder apartment interior. Film footage displays a desert scene, the heat of the boiler is raised, everyone sweats and thirsts. -Jack surveys the scale model of the hedge maze in the hotel lobby as his wife and son explore it. The floors read B L 2 3 4. Kubrick has been fairly faithful to other design elements but has left out this fylfot, which could be mistaken as a version of a swastika. He played Major T. J. There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). The color of the pillars is no longer what it was when the film was made, but the trim appears to be the same as in older photos. A child having to navigate a world built for adults, Danny stands on a stool before the bathroom sink that is built for adult use. While filming the scene in which Jack breaks down a bathroom door with an ax, Nicholson shouted out the famous Ed McMahon line from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Lloyd did, however, have a brief cameo as a spectator in Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan's 2019 sequel to The Shining. Fig. This twist at the end suggests a reincarnation that can be compared to the elixir, being the implied reward for Jacks special adventure in the Overlook Hotel. The doctor sits on the brown sofa under the hazy light of a high window, reminding of similarly red-haired Ullman seated before the hazy light of the impossible window at the Overlook, and Wendy takes a seat on a matching chair that corresponds with Jack's relationship with Ullman during the interview at the lodge. DOCTOR: Yes. On the right wall are immediately noticeable a number of honorific plaques and documents. Particularly effective are the flashbacks to his fathers cruelty in his parents marriage. Two brown leather chairs face a large brown desk situated before a bright window on the sill of which appears to be a wood carving of an eagle or other predatory bird. Danny wears a red, white and blue pullover shirt printed with another trickster figure, Bugs Bunny, who stands beside a basketball hoop, and we recall the basketball hoop in the parking lot. 29:15 - The sound occurs right after Wendy says "Just like a ghost ship, huh"? In the 144 version, this is already perceivable when she timorously tells the paediatrician about Jacks alcoholism and the incident that arose consequently (Jack injured Danny). Foreshadowing in The Hobbit | Study.com Just as with the happenings later in Room 237, we have no assurance what it is that Danny sees. 43 - The kitchen viewed behind Wendy. In a sense, Jack takes the Road Back to the Ordinary World, as in the heros journey. The Works of Ina Seidel and the Third Reich. Two union suits. Note that the Ahwahnee elevators have a variation of the fylfot, which would be American Indian or at least American Indian inspired. In her words, From May until October I was really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great. The camera has zoomed in full on Danny's reflection, his eyes dark, and then his eyes widen and a trace of light from the bathroom window illumines them. Towards the end of the novel, Jacks genuine love for his son allows him to break through the hotels corrupting influence on his mind. This is a family that is either coming or going, not quite settled in yet or preparing to move along. In fact, nothing makes sense.. Fig. Jacob's dream ladder is a key component of Qabalism/Kabbalism, understood as representing the Tree of Life and its ten Sephiroth. The lavatory scene in which Danny has his first Shining episode features a shower curtain draped over a bath tub with Danny looking into a mirror on the right wall. Which is perhaps how Danny really feels but is reluctant to voice disagreement. The velociraptor kitchen scene has multiple references to "The Shining." The end credits contain a reference to Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." . As Wendy wheels a tray with Jacks breakfast through the lobby, she walks the exact same path that Halloran does in his death scene. The decoration at the height of the lobby's columns in The Shining is done in a Z shape. I was wrong! In the Gold Room Jack meets Lloyd the first ghost he sees who acts as a Threshold Guardian.
JACK (has risen to shake hands): Bill, how do you do? She is also, through this crossfade, allied with the caretaker, Bill. The light of the unseen window, through the shower curtain, is as prominent as was the light of the window in Ullman's office. Though Kubrick had a . The climax of the film is Danny's escape from the snowy maze, where he misleads his father into getting lost. 23 MCU of Bill. The boy is a young Hero who looks for a sense of satisfaction. For all we were aware he could have just gone in to use the bathroom, was washing his hands afterward and became involved with playing in the sink. The move of the duck from the bathroom to the bedroom window is a fun tidbit, and one can perhaps concoct a story for its journey if one superimposes the bathroom scene over this one. Fig. (5:45)
The crossfade juxtaposes Wendy looking right as Bill Watson enters, he also looking right, as if a connection is being forged between them, and at least one is forged visually, however briefly.
Hallorann is killed by Jack, who now seems to be the strongest character despite having sustained injuries (the blow to the head and sprained ankle), while Danny is shell-shocked, hiding inside a cupboard after escaping the janitorial quarters bahtroom. In the above quote in which Jack pleads with his son to run away, Danny says that it is almost over. Hes aware that the end is near and that soon the horrors will cease. 72 MCU Doctor. STUART: How about your wife and son? This includes alcoholism, battles against evil, disembodied villains, corruption, and insanity. She has attempted to conceal a darker truth, in denial, wearing over it a second Wendy who encourages only looking at the bright side of things, and enjoins her son, Danny, to do the same in assuming a positive outlook on their coming isolation high in the mountains with an alcoholic father who is only five months sober and who has yet to earn back the trust of his family. We start worrying that he may be suffering from cabin fever and, in the 144 version, that he may become physically aggressive once again. That's what many people will be distracted by. 2-4.
One can be confident that the scene was shot many times, more than three, but the inconsistencies boil down to it seeming as if, one could propose, there are three different perspectives or versions presented, which could match with there being three people in the room: Bill, Stuart and Jack. 21 - The prison's governor in "A Clockwork Orange". One tries to rectify the incongruities in the story, wondering if one should comprehend Jack as having periodically attempted to quit drinking and Wendy having been reluctant to leave him. One of the girls is vaguely smiling while the other girl is frowning. Join in. At no time until near the film's end do we, from the interior of the Overlook, directly observe characters exiting or entering the lodge, and never from the lobby. Jack cockily decides for them. 41 - Danny resting on his bear pillow. Here, he's given as instead having spoken with Tony and then having brushed his teeth, which is when he blacked out. STUART (off-screen): of itself become a problem. J. W. Kern has a beautiful page with more photos at his blog, the Golden Sieve. NtRK and her many potentials are waiting 16 - The Boulder apartment complex. The hotel is a special world for them, thus they have to explore it; in a sense, Jacks adventure is that of being the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. I said earlier that Kubrick did a nice job of lifting this apartment's style/furnishings straight out of the the late 70s. In A Clockwork Orange we have the comic of the "ghost" train, in which a photographer takes a photo of a train accident that happened a hundred years beforehand. In other words, so primal nature won't take over again, which suggests a constant fight against it. In other words, the theater's revival has revived the past. It's Jack on the phone at the hotel's reception desk. Well, you see Doc, when something happens it can leave a trace of itself behind.